Founding Senior Data Engineer, Diligent Robotics
AI-powered robots for patient care teams
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AI-powered robots for patient care teams
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create robot assistants that help healthcare workers with routine tasks so they can focus on what they do best: patient care.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, including significant work in a modern data stack (cloud warehouse + dbt + version-controlled transformations)
- Deep, hands-on experience with BigQuery (or another columnar cloud warehouse — Snowflake, Redshift — with willingness to ramp on BigQuery quickly)
- Deep, hands-on experience with dbt, including project structure, testing, and modeling patterns. You can debate the tradeoffs of staging vs. intermediate vs. marts layering and have opinions about when to use incremental models
- Strong dimensional modeling fundamentals (Kimball or equivalent). You understand conformed dimensions, slowly changing dimensions, and grain
- Strong SQL. Comfortable reviewing and refactoring complex SQL written by analysts
- Experience designing ingestion pipelines from multiple source types — operational databases, SaaS APIs, log-based sources
- Excellent technical communication. You can explain tradeoffs and modeling decisions to analysts, engineers, and executives
- Comfortable being the first dedicated data engineer in an organization — setting standards, making decisions without a peer to defer to, partnering with non-data folks
Desirable
- Experience with Firestore and the native Firestore-to-BigQuery integration, particularly at scale (multi-project setups)
- Experience with Airbyte (self-hosted or cloud) or comparable managed ingestion tools (Fivetran, Stitch)
- Experience working with Elastic as a data source — extracting metrics or operational data out of Elastic indexes into downstream systems
- Experience designing a metrics catalog or semantic layer (dbt Semantic Layer, MetricFlow, LookML, or similar)
What the job involves
- We're hiring our Founding Senior Data Engineer — the first dedicated data hire on a team that already has active analytics demand, working dashboards, and a clear plan for what comes next
- You'll own the design and build of our BigQuery data warehouse, set the standards the rest of the data function will follow, and partner closely with our existing analyst team to build the analytics platform that will power the next stage of the business
- This is a hands-on senior IC role with significant architectural scope. You will set the long-term shape of our analytics platform and write much of the code that gets us there
- Stand up the warehouse. Design and implement our BigQuery environment from the ground up — project structure, IAM, dataset organization, naming conventions, cost controls — so it scales cleanly as we add sources and users
- Build the transformation layer. Set up dbt as the home for our transformation logic. Migrate the business logic from our existing analytics environment into version-controlled, tested dbt models
- Model master data. Introduce dimensional models for our core business entities so data from different sources can be joined consistently
- Own ingestion. Configure native Firestore-to-BigQuery integration, then stand up Airbyte as our managed connector layer for SaaS sources and log exports as we broaden the warehouse
- Partner across the org. Work with source-system owners, the analyst team, and engineering teams that will eventually consume curated data from the warehouse. Help define the boundary between what the warehouse is and is not for
Our take
Healthcare workers do everything they can to provide high-quality care to patients, but the high-pressure work environment can make this difficult. Whilst in-person care is their most important job, different scenarios will require workers to constantly fetch different medical items for patients, increasing job pressure and restricting the time workers have to spend with patients.
Diligent Robotics develops AI-powered robots for patient care teams called Moxi that can fetch, store, and deliver items needed within healthcare facilities. The robots have specialized storage compartments for sensitive medical materials and can safely navigate through elevators, security doors, automatic doors, and other existing infrastructure.
Whilst AI is becoming more prevalent in the healthcare industry, Diligent Robotics has taken a bold move to develop AI-driven robots that tackle the constant frustrations of item fetching that workers face. This allows them to focus more on providing in-person care to patients. Its Moxi Robot is gaining promising traction, reaching 1 million deliveries in early 2025.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
70% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2023
$25m
LATE VC
Apr 2022
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $70.9m
Company benefits
- A collaborative and mission-driven team working on challenging problems that promise to radically change the future of healthcare
- Competitive health plan coverage for individuals and dependents
- Experience working with some of the leading experts in human-robot interaction
- A positive and supportive working environment in Austin, TX
Company HQ
North Side, Austin, TX
Leadership
Andrea L. Thomaz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Associate Professor for the Socially Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2016, and in Electrical and Computer Engineering for The University of Texas at Austin since 2016.
Vivian Chu
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as User Experience Researcher at Google X (Project Wing). Graduate Research Assistant for the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2013 to 2017.
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